Leno, Letterman Keep Up Republican Biased “Jokes”

Fox News has been following Leno and Letterman’s biased “jokes” about the Republicans and how they make seven times more “jokes” about Republicans than any other political party. Today they filed a story about last night’s performance. It’s not like it should surprise anyone.

FOXNews.com
Friday, October 17, 2008

The tone of the questions from the kings of late night was just a tad different Thursday night when Joe Biden and John McCain made their respective appearances with Jay Leno and David Letterman.

It turns out the hosts of the “Late Show” and “The Tonight Show” have not been entirely balanced in the way they dole out their political put-downs and wisecracks. A tally kept by the Center for Media and Public Affairs showed they’ve skewered Republicans over Democrats by a margin of seven-to-one in recent weeks.

Thursday night’s must-see late night was no outlier.

See if you notice any familiar threads in the hosts’ questions:

Letterman to McCain:

“And for your part, when they go down the list, when they chronicle some of these things that are being hollered out from the crowd, regarding Barack Obama — ‘traitor, treason, terrorist’ — and so on and so forth — and worse, as a matter of fact … But, Senator, you yourself in previous campaigns have been the victim of some pretty nasty campaign abuse. So do you feel because of that or just because of your humanity you have a responsibility to lift your purpose here?”

“Now, I didn’t know that Sarah Palin was governor of Alaska. I never heard of her. I mean, I knew Alaska was a state, and I knew they must have a governor. But I’d never heard of her … And the question is, if she had been a man, would you also have selected him as a man?”

“And what is the process when it comes time to pick that position. How do you do that? Is it you and a committee? Is it just you going through your phonebook? I mean, honestly, I don’t … how do you select a vice president? You knew about her. But the rest of America, sadly, didn’t really know about her.”

“Here’s my point of view on this. And again, I really don’t know anything. … When this happened, I thought to myself, wow … you try to take the best care of your children that you can for their future. Present and future. And I kind of felt like that’s the responsibility to a huge extent of our administration. So the person, man or woman, who is in charge of that, has got to do the same. And I was just wondering if the thoughtfulness of that process included your selection of vice president.”

“If I were to run upstairs, wake you up in the middle of the night and say, “John, is Sarah Palin really the woman to lead us through the next four, eight years? Through the next 9/11 attack?”

“She’s the one, I think who says that Barack Obama pals around with terrorists. Has she in fact said that at rallies? … But did you not have a relationship with Gordon Liddy?”

“Have people talked to you about taking (Palin) off the ticket? Did that ever happen? … Did people in the party ever mention that? Did you ever hear any discussion?”

Leno to Biden:

“Can I call you Joe? Is that okay?”

“Let me ask you, McCain has been here many times over the last 10 or 15 years, and you know him very well. I saw, last night, odd facial expressions I have never seen before. I’m not being a wise guy. I mean, it seemed different. Did he seem different to you? You’ve known him a long time.”

“This Joe the plumber guy, I don’t know … I think more people are afraid of plumbers than terrorists, actually. … But it seems awful convenient and all — I’m a little suspicious, but that’s me, you know, worried about taxes. Does it seem real?”

“Well, it must be more difficult — when you started back in the ’70s, they didn’t cover it like they do. It’s, like, every … It’s 24 hours a day. It’s every second. Every word you utter is on — how do you?”

“Well, you were also the star of the highest-rated TV show of the year, with you and your costar, Sarah Palin. Any more specials planned?”

“Did she wink at you?”

“So what’s your opinion of Sarah Palin? … Go ahead. Qualified?”

“Let me ask you — this is kind of a serious question. You’ve been in the Senate for 35 years. You’re a chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Is vice president a step down power-wise?”

“So where do you get the call? Is it like that prize-winning thing where the van pulls up with the big check?”